Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Charles Edwards and his former aide Murali Yamazula Venkata were indicted Friday on charges of stealing government property to defraud the U.S. government. Yamazula was also charged with destroying records.

The indictments handed down by the Justice Department allege that Edwards and Venkata were working with others within the inspector general’s office to orchestrate a scheme to steal confidential and proprietary software that includes sensitive information on government employees. Prosecutors say Edwards was attempting to resell a revamped package of the software as a product of his firm, Delta Business Solutions to the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“The indictment further alleges that, in addition to stealing DHS-OIG’s software and the sensitive government databases, Venkata and others also assisted Edwards by reconfiguring his laptop so that he could properly upload the stolen software and databases, provided troubleshooting support whenever Edwards required it, and helped him build a testing server at his residence with the stolen software and databases,” the Department of Justice said in a press release announcing the indictments. “As further part of the alleged scheme, Edwards retained software developers in India for the purpose of developing his commercial alternative of DHS-OIG’s software.”

Their operations, according to the indictment lasted from 2014 to 2017. Edwards officially left the Department of Homeland Security in December of 2013 but prosecutors say the former watchdog of the agency leveraged his relationship with Venkata and other employees within the office to conduct his scheme.

After continued speculation about whether or not President Donald Trump has the Wuhan coronavirus, his physician, Dr. Sean Conley, sent a memo to White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, confirming that his results came back negative.

"One week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation in Mar-a-Lago, the President remains symptom-free," Conley wrote in his memo. "I have been in daily contact with the CDC and White House Coronavirus Task Force, and we are encouraging the implementation of all their best practices for exposure reduction and transmission mitigation."

The president decided Friday evening to take a test for the Wuhan coronavirus after coming in contact with multiple who ended up testing positive for the virus. He said his biggest motivation was the press continually asking about whether or not he would take the test.

“I decided I should based on the press conference yesterday. People were asking, ‘Did I take the test?’” Trump said. “The press has been going crazy.”

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Vice President Mike Pence has not been tested for the Wuhan coronavirus but said he would consult with Dr. Conley to determine if he or his wife need to be tested, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Thanks to Trump’s lies, coverup, and bumbling, this narcissistic ignoramus must now “resort” to relying on science to save America as he also attempts to salvage what is left of his dying presidency. While scientists race to address this scary disease with professionalism and selflessness even in the face of Trump’s war on science, the editor-in-chief of Science magazine has published a much-needed editorial lambasting Trump for his failed leadership and unforgivable hypocrisy.

My Wife made a comment this morning reminding me how we had two unfit and incapable Republican presidents who failed their citizens. GW Bush delayed and inept role in the (9/11) invasion and the New Orleans Katrina disaster in 2005 Now today, a third disaster, another Republican president failure to be proactive to warnings given to the United States weeks before.

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I retweeted earlier this week a tweet that explained what happens if Trump did cancel the election. Legally, his Presidency ends on January 20th 2021. If he hasn’t been legally re-elected. He’s out. As would the VP. The active President would likely be Nancy Pelosi.

But..If there is no legal house elections either, they could oppose that too. But there would still need to be an acting President. This would fall then to the Senate, Senators who are not up for re-election. 23 Republican Senators and 12 Democrats are up for re-election, meaning that on the 20th January 2021, they are out too. This leaves the Democrats with the majority in the Senate, therefore a Democratic Senator would be one acting President.

The other question is,”what happens if he won’t leave?” He is no longer President on January 20 2021. The Twentieth Amendment says that the president’s and vice president’s terms “shall end at noon on the 20th day of January. The terms of their successors shall then begin. The president immediately and automatically loses his constitutional authority upon expiration of his term.

He would have no power to direct the U.S. Secret Service or other federal agents to protect him. He loses his power, as the commander in chief of the armed forces, to order a military response to defend him. In fact, the newly minted president would possess those presidential powers. If necessary, the successor could direct federal agents to forcibly remove Trump from the White House. Now a private citizen, Trump would no longer be immune from criminal prosecution, and could be arrested and charged with trespassing in the White House.

While even former presidents enjoy Secret Service protection, agents would not follow an illegal order to protect one from removal from office.

“Be quiet. Just let the experts speak.” Joe Biden should take his own advice.

Democrats are so desperate to score political points out of a global pandemic they are playing into the hands of the communist regime whose cover-up led to the pandemic in the first place.

From the beginning, President Trump acted decisively. Experts like Anthony Fauci credited the initial travel ban from China for saving us “really a lot of hurt.”

What was Biden saying? Days before the Trump administration finalized the travel restrictions, in an editorial Biden warned against “reactionary” travel bans, claiming it “would only have made things worse” with Ebola. Biden then accused the president of “demonstrated failures of judgment.”

How about letting the experts speak. When asked if the travel ban helped fight against the Wuhan coronavirus, Dr. Fauci said, “I think it absolutely has.”

“Clearly early on we made a travel ban with regards to China that was a very smart move right there because what that did was prevent a major influx from China,” Dr. Fauci added.

While experts on the White House Coronavirus Taskforce were making decisions in the best interests of all Americans, Biden was politicizing them. A day after the ban was announced, Biden smeared President Trump of “hysterical xenophobia” and letting “fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.”

“Racist” if you do, “racist” if you don’t. When President Trump announced additional travel restrictions on Europe, Biden falsely said it was “based on favoritism and politics, rather than risk,” and claimed it would be “counterproductive.”

Back to the experts: “Today, the new China is Europe…seeding other countries throughout the world,” Dr. Fauci said. “That’s the reason why we made the very difficult, but appropriate decision to have a travel ban on the European countries.”

Will it help? “We are definitely ahead of the curve on that,” Dr. Fauci said.

Rather than being muzzled, like Biden falsely claimed, Dr. Fauci and the White House have continually updated the public. Biden didn’t take press questions after his speech. Instead, from the comfort of his teleprompter, he delivered talking points that could have been written by the communist Chinese regime.

We should not “fall back on xenophobia,” Biden said. “Labeling COVID-19 a 'foreign virus' does not display accountability for the misjudgments that have taken thus far by the Trump administration." China’s state-run media agrees. While China is busy trying to make President Trump the “fall guy,” its propaganda paper China Daily says calling the disease the “Wuhan virus” or “China virus” is “racist” and “distasteful.”

Biden himself said the coronavirus was “coming in from China” in February, but that was before China’s propaganda campaign was in full force. Again, what do the experts say? Gordon Chang, who lived in China and Hong Kong for decades, says denying where the coronavirus came from helps China’s “all-out assault on the United States.”

At the start of the outbreak China silenced doctors. One of them, Li Wenliang, is now dead, a victim of what the communist regime dismissed as a “rumor.” U.S. officials say China’s cover-up cost the world months of critical response time. Now, as communists do, China is attempting to rewrite history, smearing those who speak the truth. Chang says we should continue to call COVID-19 the "Wuhan virus" or “Chinese coronavirus” to hold China accountable for unleashing this global crisis.

"This isn't a Republican thing. We all need to unite and for people to say, 'this is racist' is irresponsible," Chang said. "There is no race known as Wuhanese."

Now is the time for unity. Instead of using a crisis as an excuse for Bernie Sanders’ socialist wish list, it is critical to work with the private sector. South Korea’s success with widespread available testing was made possible by Seegene, a molecular biotech company, getting the fastest government approval scientists had ever seen.

Single-payer, like in Italy where they are rationing care, is not the answer. Cutting red tape and utilizing robust private industry is. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to its first high-speed coronavirus test to Roche, which will allow the company to provide results within four hours and provide millions of tests each month.

“I’ve been a lab person. I’ve been a vaccine developer. I’ve been a doctor. I’ve been all those things,” said Dr. Deborah Birx, another expert on the White House task force. “But I have never in my lifetime of government service worked with the CDC in a way that every time a state or local government calls and says, ‘I have this barrier, I need a modification to the regulations.’ That has happened almost daily.”

President Trump will keep working with the experts. We all should keep listening to them.

The highest rate of U.S. unemployment was 24.9% in 1933, during the Great Depression.1 Unemployment remained above 14% from 1931 to 1940. It remained in the single digits until September 1982 when it reached 10.1%. During the Great Recession, unemployment reached 10% in October 2009.